Noob question - Should I attempt it?

[kittyhas1000legs]

Trees have leaves. They come 'n go different times of year.
Should you try? That's your call.
But, is 30w your only bird of interest?
Could you have a backup plan using the roof, neighbors balcony, or even the yard?
Expand your thinking. We'll help where we can.

Unfortunately evergreens are very stubborn about dropping their needles . Judging from the sun on my balcony this morning when I had the outage calculator open, I can only see approx. 15W through 47W, tree depending. I'll definitely knock on my neighbor's door upstairs and see if they wouldn't mind a dish. Of course I'll also offer to run coax to their apt too. The ground is a definite no go because of the trees, which are all around the same height as the buildings (three stories). As for a roof install, I'll ask the rental office and the maintenance guy, since that would suddenly give me clear LOS of just about the whole arc.

I could ask the guy across the way about putting a dish on his balcony, but it might be tacky having a coax tethered across a 20-30 foot gap between buildings...

[primestar31]

Regarding Dishpointer.com, there might be a mistake when it provides your location (long/lat). I noticed the lat. provided for my address was 4 points off from other sites, including google.

Cheers, K

That's why you grab the pointer, and move it to your property right on the spot where your dish is. It then recalculates it's position. Sure beats anything else.

[johann12]

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I live in tied spot to point at satellites with many trees around.
My son has a telescope that I used for setting up my dish, to find out if I can point at the satellites I wanted.
I put a angle-finder on the telescope and I used a compass, I set the height of the telescope lower than the bottom portion of the dish and then I looked through the scope to see if anything would be in the way. it took me 10 different location to find the right spot where I would get the most satellites with my dish.
Other folks here have use a piece of pipe and set an angle-finder on it, then they look through the pipe to see if they have a clear view to the satellite.